[PATCH v2 1/7] qemu_tpm: Do async IO when starting swtpm emulator

Jiri Denemark jdenemar at redhat.com
Mon Mar 28 07:45:16 UTC 2022


On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 17:02:00 +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> When vTPM is secured via virSecret libvirt passes the secret
> value via an FD when swtpm is started (arguments --key and
> --migration-key). The writing of the secret into the FDs is
> handled via virCommand, specifically qemu_tpm calls
> virCommandSetSendBuffer()) and then virCommandRunAsync() spawns a
> thread to handle writing into the FD via
> virCommandDoAsyncIOHelper. But the thread is not created unless
> VIR_EXEC_ASYNC_IO flag is set, which it isn't. In order to fix
> it, virCommandDoAsyncIO() must be called.
> 
> The credit goes to Marc-André Lureau
> <marcandre.lureau at redhat.com> who has done all the debugging and
> proposed fix in the bugzilla.
> 
> Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2064115
> Fixes: a9c500d2b50c5c041a1bb6ae9724402cf1cec8fe
> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_tpm.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_tpm.c b/src/qemu/qemu_tpm.c
> index 50f9caabf3..56bccee128 100644
> --- a/src/qemu/qemu_tpm.c
> +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_tpm.c
> @@ -899,6 +899,7 @@ qemuTPMEmulatorStart(virQEMUDriver *driver,
>      if (!(pidfile = qemuTPMEmulatorPidFileBuildPath(cfg->swtpmStateDir, shortName)))
>          return -1;
>  
> +    virCommandDoAsyncIO(cmd);
>      virCommandDaemonize(cmd);
>      virCommandSetPidFile(cmd, pidfile);
>      virCommandSetErrorFD(cmd, &errfd);
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 

Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar at redhat.com>


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